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Chinese company Tescent owns 40% of Epic Games [47809]

 
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 3:32 pm    Post subject: Chinese company Tescent owns 40% of Epic Games [47809] Reply with quote

The Epic Games Store is currently suffering from what people in the industry call uot;an image problem.uot; Despite challenging the Steam monopoly with a more generous revenue split for publishers and developers, the Epic Games Store has a vocal contingent of critics. They allege that the Epic Games Store is poorly

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PostPosted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 6:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tim is a dick. I've blocked 6 numbers so far. 2 days without calls now.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 6:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't doubt you Tom. Then again, Tencent is a huge company. I play path of exile, I played Aion and some other tencent games and have made purchases in almost all of those games. Never had a phone call from China or w/e.

What I am trying to say: Goddamn Epic is selling user data! Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 06, 2019 10:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tom wrote:
Tim is a dick. I've blocked 6 numbers so far. 2 days without calls now.


Why did you add your phone number?

I alwaya use 12345678 for that
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 12:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tntdruid wrote:
Tom wrote:
Tim is a dick. I've blocked 6 numbers so far. 2 days without calls now.


Why did you add your phone number?

I alwaya use 12345678 for that


so just in case some companies are breaking the law or/and are general scumbags, we should lie and cheat too?

why not just use credit card number 1111 2222 3333 4444 just in case?
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 9:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do hope it serves as an eye-opener for a lot of people.

I take it you guys are in countries where GDPR does not apply (like US and Canada where it's common practice to sell and misuse private data). Otherwise you would already be suing Epic instead of bitching around.

Well, guess what. In China and a lot of other countries, it's common practice to steal data.
You have to ask yourself: what's your privacy worth, really?

Do not call lists are not a solution - they are a workaround to prevent your harassment leveraging data you already lost.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 9:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Deleted just because i didn't want to start a flame war here.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 9:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Serhat wrote:
Sorry but what Tom says is misleading. I'm using epic launcher since first day as a developer and bought more than 10 products worth hundreds of dollars and never got any calls or emails til today. Don't forget that epic launcher is maybe 5 years old and millions of developers already using it.

Also like other epic products, epic launcher user data statistics code source is open. If you are not a gamer who doesn't know any idea about by looking through code and only crying just because some games are being exclusive to epic store, sorry you are not the first user of it. As I know more than 5 million developers already uses it, including AAA studios.

Please stop crying just because exclusive games. If you really doubt about your user data just look at code, or find someone who can understand code before crying about it with lies.

Nobody was crying til some games went exclusive on it.

And for the sake of god, which Chinese company would buy data of a user doesn't know Chinese and call him? Very logical statement you have there. But ggmania publish this kind of comment without doubt and thinking on their news. Sorry Tom, you are not the first user of epic launcher. Don't behave like that.


looks to me like you have no idea what you are talking about. All your points are false. I very much doubt you are who you say you are.

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Epic announced its own Epic Games Store, an open digital storefront for games, on December 4, 2018, which launched a few days later with The Game Awards 2018 presentation.


we are talking about this and them. Store has it's launcher (for the store). It's not even 1 year old. I wont even bother to dismantle your other crap.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Deleted just because i didn't want to start a flame war here.

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 10:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Please check some technical information or find someone who knows coding if you still doubt to check their user statistics share code.

https://forum.facepunch.com/general/bvnqr/Epic-Games-Store-Is-Shit-But-It-s-Not-Spyware/1/

As a user of epic launcher for 5 years, that doesn't happen. Epic is really helpful to developers, and this will start to be helpfull also to users on price side in couple of years probably.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 07, 2019 11:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

we are talking about epic store launcher that came out December 2018. You are using something else. End of discussion.
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